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Auxiliary armor adds nothing interesting to the game and presents no interesting decisions. If you find a pair of boots on the ground, there is no reason to not wear them. I unironically think that choices akin to what UC Ghouls have (use gloves or keep +2 to base damage) would add depth to the gam...

duvessa wrote:I'm asking you to explain your reasoning because you're the one proposing a new feature.

And you're comparing to a removal of a feature. You owe him an explanation as well.

First let's see how this works in Path of Exile: 1) Buffs are reserving MP, and they almost all do it by percentage, so e.g. it always takes away 25% no matter how much max MP you have. 2) Buffs/auras cost a lot so you only have at most a few on at any given time. 3) You use MP for basic attacks. We...

StupidBerserker wrote:Seriously? Are you too lazy to move your fingers from "o" and "tab"?

Having to cast a spell 5 times just to go back to full HP doesn't seem like very exciting gameplay to me.

The biggest problem with Regeneration is that you have to recast it. I think if you could make it a permanent buff at some reasonable cost (both xp- and design-wise), a lot of issue with Regeneration would be gone. I would suggest Path of Exile-like mana reservation system for Charms, where you acti...

Don't fight if you don't have to. Early on you dive lower into Dungeon because enemies there give more XP (way more than 10 rats for example) and you have a better chance to find good items like wands. Later on fighting popcorn is a huge waste of time and hell/pan is almost completely pacifist if yo...

Bad things about Beogh: - Available only to one race, seems a pointless restriction - Very similar to what Yred does - Unclear inventory management rules - Questionable why he's considered evil for the purpose of god switching Good things about Beogh: - Theme of monsters joining you to fight other m...

I played quite a lot of Wanderers recently (planning to win all of them eventually) and while I didn't code dive to confirm it, there seems to be a pattern that makes you at least semi-proficient in one of the things you receive, so most of the starts will have something to base their character on i...

The gimmick of a very fast extendable neck and bad evasion seem to contradict each other to me. Anyway, the way I understand this, it's a slow species with baad defenses who have innate "Portal Projectile" for their melee attacks, is that it? If you extend your neck, will you take several ...

Felids can be easily played as actual conjurers and it's pretty effective too, though excessive kiting can get on your nerves if you're not a patient person. http://underhound.eu:81/crawl/morgue/Leszczynek/morgue-Leszczynek-20160409-135058.txt Fulminant Prism is your bread and butter as you can outr...

NhorianScum wrote:You really do not wwnt to xurse weapon in ext which is the only place HW matters.

What else than a weapon dealing +75% damage to most targets would I wield there?

dynast wrote:I will just assume it has nothing to do with running out of cmut.

It was a convenient excuse nonetheless.

Or is there any reason against it besides flavour? It's not even obvious that you can't do it - 900+ games, 80+ wins and I only learned about it today. Cursing holy wrath would make Ash a better god for extended too. As a bonus, here's a morgue of my disappointment: http://crawl.xtahua.com/crawl/mor...

This is an indirect buff to Ashenzari by the way.

Vajrapani wrote:Unless it's some explicit challenge race like Mummy,Felid or Octopode

Seems to me like they just were meant to be a harder race. I think jump alone wouldn't define them enough, slow + jump is what makes them different from others, even if not by that much.

Doesn't Shadow Creatures possibly summon moths of wrath who then proceed to berserk enemies with their melee? I'm pretty sure I've had such experience in one of my games and since then I try to not use this spell in Zot if I have other options.

So aren't you advocating the removal of Evocations skill instead? Or is it just a joke? My communication skills are failing me. Anyway, elemental/summoning evokers except for disc of storms + wand of acid (corrosion debuff) are good to have at all times. Even with 0 Evo I'd still take the acid wand ...

An idea taken straight out of ADOM, which has a special message whenever an OOD spawn is attempted by the game and an additional one if it's not generated after all ("You sense imminent danger..." and "...but the feeling passes." respectively). It doesn't carry any substantial ga...

Shard1697 wrote:And of course extremely annoying to be in a branch like spider, run out of blood, and have to fuck off somewhere else to get blood bottles before you return to and finish spider.

This is THE reason I don't like playing vampires.

High skill requirement weapons have their place in the game as long as Okawaru exists. Heroism costs virtually nothing.

Rather than GSC being out of reach (they are not), it's more of an issue with how amazingly good normal giant clubs are.

Just so you know, -1 Maces & Flails apt doesn't mean anything because you will still go for giant clubs, just not the spiked ones. I think I actually agree with uh... I think it was minmay, about the fact that you'd need to lower the apt to -3 to force player into actual choices. Please don't do...

Go back, find a giant club (not spiked) and wield it immediately. Switch to a giant spiked club at about 21-22 M&F

It was still in blue somewhere in early 0.19 trunk, then it got changed for whatever reason, I'm guessing by mistake.

How do I downvote a post?

Ogres are already HP tanks I believe. I'd expect a person saying how anything after very early game doesn't matter to understand it.

Doesn't look very optimal to me, but it doesn't really matter because there's plenty of xp to gain so you can afford to make plenty of skilling mistakes.

Why would you have stones take one of your inventory slots when you can just throw one of your 25 scrolls of remove curse instead?

The hyperstreak killer.

I'm not sure if it's so fun to pray to find a weapon before finding monsters stronger than rats, but otherwise - why not?

It will also quite easily bump up the turn count by some crazy amount as "the next square closest to the known stairs" will be likely in the opposite direction to the one just revealed. Anyway, if you really feel like doing this, you should probably do two or more different settings, one o...

You know, it would make a better impression if it was actually pointing out errors.

And tier 3. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-2-g2b0e13a (webtiles) character file. 1474314 Leszczynek the Halfling Catapult (level 27, 199/199 HPs) Began as a Halfling Wanderer on Oct 26, 2016. Was the Champion of Kikubaaqudgha. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Oct 29, 2016! The game ...

kuniqs wrote:I'm in. If anyone lacks a squaddie, quote me.

We're still one person short, if you want to play with us again. Catch me or p0werm0de on CXC.

Tier 2. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-2-g2b0e13a (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Bludgeoner (Halfling Wanderer) Turns: 41242, Time: 02:25:02 Health: 119/130 AC: 22 Str: 19 XL: 18 Next: 23% Magic: 24/24 EV: 26 Int: 13 God: Kikubaaqudgha [******] Gold: 1025 SH: 11 Dex: 24 Spells: ...

Halflings and Kobolds had their aptitudes changed in trunk, you might want to look into it. EDIT: Tier 1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1937-g70ed36a (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Basher (Halfling Wanderer) Turns: 8446, Time: 00:24:48 Health: 63/65 AC: 11 Str: 14 XL: 10 Next: ...

Either go full melee with Maces & Flails (eveningstars are one-handed for small races) or Long Blades (riposte) and a buckler/shield + some slings or crossbows OR use minions + polearms and pray for a demon trident to appear fast. That said, I already splatted one character, but I'll try at leas...

FYI, you can get tons of high scores being considerably slower than <10k at the first rune.

Yara's Violent Unraveling in hands of yaktaur packs certainly sounds funny, but more because of RMsl/DMsl than Invisibility. I think it might be worth trying out, though it still does nothing against yaktaur's biggest nemeses: Corners and Closed Doors. Blasting demons are just stronger hellions with...

Tormentors and hellions have fairly low MR (60), but Confuse is worth keeping in extended just for doom hounds in Tartarus.

The problem here is that a huge chunk of "weaponsmith" concept is already in Okawaru with his weapon and armour gifts. Also your active abilities are really underwhelming with much too high cost for what they do. Sorry for no longer explanation, but the short story is: resistances beyond f...

I'm not going to even reply seriously, that's how ridiculous this complaint is. Do you notice that the thread is in Dungeon Crawling Advice? It's here because I could not find a use for it, and other people may be the same. I did not imagine that some people often play just by looking at the monste...

I'm not going to even reply seriously, that's how ridiculous this complaint is. Do you people just go through all the game features to look for one thing that wasn't complained about recently or something? huh, okay... it's just that autoexplore/travel already tells you what's in view, in the messag...

It might be only me, but I consider getting rid of teleportitis worth losing rPois (as the rest are almost a non-factor).

Tier 3. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1891-ge1d1fe8 (webtiles) character file. 1874524 Leszczynek the Intangible (level 27, 231/231 HPs) Began as a Merfolk Wanderer on Oct 18, 2016. Was the Champion of Okawaru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes! The game lasted 05:00:29 (55409 turns). ...

I'm using swamp dragon scales (armour in 0.18) and it should be more than enough, I'm already at 28/32 AC/EV and I'm only at Depths:2. Other reasonable choices are ice/fire/pearl dragon scales or a ring mail, but you can also try even lighter armour if you wish to. You can go heavier as well, but it...

Tier 2. Not exactly at the moment of taking the rune, but not much later either (I forgot to make a character dump in time). Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1891-ge1d1fe8 (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Fencer (Merfolk Wanderer) Turns: 23600, Time: 01:50:29 Health: 134/134 AC: 20 ...

I wanted to use polearms because of the amazing apt, but the RNG started me with a falchion Why start as a Wanderer in that case, rather than with a Gladiator background to get a starting Trident? Honest question here - not sniping at all! - but I've started a Gladiator character at home earlier (I...

Tier 1. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1891-ge1d1fe8 (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Nimble (Merfolk Wanderer) Turns: 7301, Time: 00:28:10 Health: 74/74 AC: 8 Str: 13 XL: 10 Next: 44% Magic: 11/13 EV: 23 Int: 13 God: Okawaru [****..] Gold: 74 SH: 0 Dex: 15 Spells: 2 memorised, 5 ...

As someone who played a lot of Ogres I don't approve of making thrown weapons finite to fill a gap in an unrefined idea. The reason for your proposal is the lack of a solution for no launchers used by Throwing, right? Otherwise why would you differ between those and other physical ranged weaponry? L...

Spriggan/centaur ghosts with spells or draining weapons are the best things in Crawl. I wish we could have them more often. Much, much more often.

Tier 2 (with berserk) Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.19-a0-1886-gd64a0f0 (webtiles) character file. Leszczynek the Devastator (CeFE) Turns: 50998, Time: 04:25:18 Health: 216/216 AC: 17 Str: 18 XL: 17 Next: 96% Magic: 28/30 EV: 9 Int: 21 God: Ru [******] Gold: 264 SH: 4 Dex: 14 Spells: 10 memoris...

I wonder if including enough charms requiring either X MP/turn or having to be recast very often would make Sif or even Vehumet a viable choice for meleedudes. Probably not, but at least there'd be a pretext to write new horribly misleading guides. As for the spell itself, it's worth trying out in t...

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